#historical document

[consuetudinari0]

Walter Hines Page's 1913 Letter on Mexican Revolution

In 1913, during the Mexican Revolution, the British ambassador to the United States, Walter Hines Page, wrote a letter to the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, expressing his concern about the political instability in Mexico. Page suggested that Mexico might require foreign intervention to restore order and governance. In his letter, Page mentioned that Mexico might need “200 years to…

[imkeepinit]

A response by Kiyoshi Okamoto, Chairman of the Fair Play Committee, to the loyalty questionnaire issued by the War Relocation Authority.

[goldmanguyperson]

1930s advertisement

Interesting that this suggests maybe more people understood that bad working conditions means less faith in the business and maybe capitalism as a whole. Surely can’t have been so common to think, right? I have no clue. Cuz for sure nowadays being a communist is seen as a personal failing or an Evil Foreign or Satanic Plot to people who dont like communism

of course, this is an advertisement for paper towels of all things, so no doubt it was just meant to be eyecatching. i just think it’s interesting they decided to accept and repeat a fact that usually capitalists dont like to hear

[danbusler]

The Caretaker's Shed

He walked away, with a tear in his eye and smile

The caretaker slowly approaches the old brick structure for one last time and stops to fondly remember how new it looked the first time he was there … it must be going on 50 years now. But he was tired and it was time to pass this labor of love on to the next generation.He entered the shed and gazed at the tools that he had held so many thousands of times. He carefully arranged them in an order…

[andhumanslovedstories]

I've been getting really into the idea of purposeful primary documents. Sometimes when I'm writing a journal entry, I'll stop to explain in excruciating detail something that I take for granted as common knowledge, like exactly what the process of getting groceries looks like for me. I have two main motivations. One, so many practical every day details of life get forgotten as time goes on, and losing that texture affects our understanding our history. Judith Flanders' book The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London focuses on a glorious level of minutiae--jobs, railways, rivers, sewers, entertainment, sounds, smells--that fundamentally altered how I view this period in history. You don't need to understand how the implementation of gas lights on the streets affected London life to get the gist of major political movements at the time, but god does that information make everything so much more real.

My second purpose is someone someday is going to write a period piece about the time when I grew up, and I like to imagine that one hundred years from now, someone might read a scanned version of my journal and go, "oh thank god, THAT'S how doordash worked." And then they still write it wrong so their blorbos can fuck.

[ew-selfish-art]

DPxDC Au: Normally when Danny vandalizes ancient cave walls and historic places on his 'favor' missions for Clockwork, he gets sent back to erase them. But no, apparently this time, when Danny added his actual phone number into some painting, he's not allowed to go back and fix it. Ugh.

...

Tim has had the painting of Bruce professionally reviewed a few times since the old Bat was retrieved from the time stream. He's not entirely sure how the painting still exists, he's not even sure that it matters any more... But one day Tim catches something new in the painting.

It was small, and it could've just been the light at first but... Is that a phone number in the background?? It looks like black marker on the black curtains and it makes him feel feral. The family is kinder this time about how they think he's gone crazy- but each one of them admit that they can't remember a phone number ever being present.

The lab reports that the number was added over the paint- and that it's an ink based marking akin to a sharpie but like, hundreds of years old. So... It's been added recently but not at all recently enough for Tim to have an explanation.

Tim doesn't want to hear any more of his family members opinions on the matter and he certainly isn't going to just, stop investigating or something stupid like that. So, he takes the painting to the tower, gathers his team (Cassie, Kon and Bart), and they call the number in the middle of the night after a lot of planning/back-and-forth/catastrophizing.

It doesn't answer until the final ring, and the static that comes through the phone is bone chilling. A deep, monstrous groan which echoed with agony fills the room.

"I have a math test in like, three hours, who the fuck are you and why the fuck are you calling in the middle of the night?" The voice now complains, still sounding vaguely inhuman despite it's very human word choices.

"Your number is in a historical painting, we had a few questions but uh, you can call us back later?" Tim cringes as he says it but he hadn't planned on having to reply to someone trying to go back to bed. Or someone who was apparently also a teenager. (He had so, so many contingency plans for like, every kind of villain, alien or demon. lame.)

"...Ugh. might as well." The voice calls out, agreeing with a sigh that echos so deeply the team can feel it in their bones.

"Cool. Good luck on your test?" Tim offers.

"Mph." And the line hangs up.

...

Danny is at lunch with Sam and Tucker when he remembers the late night call. He'd spent the morning bitching about never getting a full night of sleep and it finally occurred to him what had happened. Of course his friends think it's hilarious that CW wouldn't let him erase his number. Of course they do.

They stop laughing when Danny calls the number back.

"Hello, this is Red Robin of Gotham. I have Superboy, Wonder girl and Impulse present with me. How did your math test go?"

[worfsbarmitzvah]

there’s such an attitude among ex-christian atheists that religions just spring up out of the void with no cultural context behind them. like ive heard people say shit like “those (((zionists))) think they own a piece of land bc their book of fairy tales told them so!!!” and they refuse to understand that no, we don’t belong there because of the torah, it’s in the torah because we belong there. because we’re from there. the torah (from a reform perspective) was written by ancient jews in and about the land that they were actively living on at the time. the torah contains instructions for agriculture because the people who lived in the land needed a way to teach their children how to care for it. it contains laws of jurisprudence because those are pretty important to have when you’re trying to run a society. same for the parts that talk about city planning. it contains our national origin story for the same reason that american schools teach kids about the boston tea party. it’s an extremely complex and fascinating text that is the furthest thing from just a “book of fairy tales”

[cheesenchalk]

thinking about that time somewhere in the early 70's George found an old letter of his from like '61 or something and pattie told him he should save it so he 'recreated' it and just for funsies threw in a line or two that wasn't in the original about how paul sucked at bass and john wanted to kick him out of the band. unparalleled haterism. you have to respect it

[czerwonykasztelanic]

Le 9 Thermidor, l'an II de la République une & indivisible / Age of Excuse VI, Mgła

[auguste-marmonts-only-fan]

YO EUROPEAN HISTORY LOVERS

guys, I must tell you all

if you want/need high quality images or texts from european history

RUN TO https://www.europeana.eu/en!!

I just found out about it today and they have amazing sources

they have things I havent seen anywhere else, also its pretty much all copyright free (great for school work)

xoxo

[useless-catalanfacts]

How did Medieval people know that a document wasn't fake?

To prove that a document was real, important documents would be copied two (sometimes more) times on the same parchment, with drawings or words between them, and then they were cut right between those drawings or word. If a document was suspicious of being a fake, they would bring the two copies together and, if the drawings or word matched, it proved that the documents were original.

In this video, you can see an example of this, the moment when two documents are put together and match. This document is the inheritance of Guillem Isarn from Barcelona, Catalonia, written on January 17th, 1330. It's kept in Catalonia's National Archive.

Video and information posted by Catalonia's National Archive on their Instagram.

[spookyradluka]

When alt righters use the founding fathers to justify the current government situation and call me a traitor to my country for disagreeing with the government, but I own a physical copy of the articles of confederation, the constitution, the bill of rights, and the amendments

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.-- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,-- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

- The Articles of Confederation, Article 1 (July 4th 1776)

[imkeepinit]

[angstics]

multiple books including material from my chem are coming out this year!

"Where Are Your Boys Tonight? The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008" by Chris Payne (June 6, 2023, preorder link) -- Includes interview with Mikey Way (src)

“Top Eight: How MySpace Changed Music” by Michael Tedder (August 15, 2023, preorder link) -- Includes interview with Frank Iero

"Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006)" by Amy Fleisher Madden (Oct 24, 2023, preorder link) -- Includes essay by Frank Iero, photos by Mark Beemer

projects 1+3 also include photos of my chem from the 2000s. exciting stuff :-)

[resplendentoutfit]

Girls in white dresses...

because summer's not yet over, right?

Regency Era

Rolinda Sharples (British, 1793-1838 ) • Portrait of the Artist • 1814 • Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Victorian Era

Anton Einsle (Austrian, 1801–1871) • Portrait of a Lady in a Hat • c. mid 19th century

Edwardian Era

Frank Dicksee (British/English, 1853–1928) • Lady Hillingdon • 1905

Roaring 20s

Gerald Festus Kelly (British, 1879–1972) • The Countess of Lisburne • 1926 • Ferrens Art Gallery, Yorkshire, UK

[sdentii]

Hatsune Miku (Ticino edition)